Rhizome’s Seven on Seven is, by definition, a crap shoot. The conference runs with the basic premise that by pairing seven technologists with seven artists and sticking them in a room together for 24 hours, a few creative sparks might fly. The following day, Rhizome hosts a six hour long conference in which the pairs are given 30 minutes each to present their collaborative work. The results are predictably mixed. Some projects fail, many have potential, but almost none amount to anything at all. Acknowledging this, Seven on Seven Moderator John Michael Boling quickly conceded during his opening remarks that “the main deliverable here is conversation.”

Fork over your cash to The New York Times. The publication has finally closed loopholes to the paywall. We are not happy. [New York Magazine]

After a fire destroyed the sixth floor of Pratt’s Brooklyn studios, the school has sought out donated supplies to help students who have lost everything. A distribution center opened Friday and includes canvases, tools and more than 3,000 brushes. [In the Air]

Rhizome’s Seven on Seven is getting bigger. The conference will take place in the New School’s Tishman auditorium this year, a move from the New Museum’s basement auditorium. Let the live tweeting begin. [Rhizome]

Fantasy cannibal’s wife testifies. She discovered chats containing gruesome fantasies in which she is tied up by the feet, and her throat slit. The tears flow. [The New York Times]

Oh, this is GREAT. ARTnews recaps its visits to the Armory Show, running back 100 years. James B. Townsend’s 1913 review kicks off the recap. Longest sentence we’ve ever read, but we think he liked it. [ARTnews]

The Moving Image fair releases its list of thirty-three artists and respective galleries. Two new participants we’re happy to see on the list: Anne Spalter, courtesy of toomer labzda and Rbt. Sps. courtesy of Interstate Projects. [Moving Image]

People care about Julian Schnabel again? He hasn’t had a museum exhibition since 1987, but Gagosian will show his paintings this fall and the Brant Art Foundation will, too. [Art in America]

“Artists are the ones who are here to… explain what the technologists are doing, or at least contextualize, and make this [work] make sense,” exclaimed public intellectual and technology writer Douglas Rushkoff in his opening keynote on Saturday at Rhizome's Seven on Seven. Now in its third year, the art and technology conference pairs seven artists with seven technologists. They're given 24 hours to collaborate, and a lot of hyperbole to live up to.

In this edition of Massive Links: Stuff that will kill you, Nicholas O’Brien on Read/Write and scads of Rhizome news. Also, don’t miss tonight’s conversation at the New Museum with Olia Lialina and Dragon Espenschied.